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Paradise

內容簡介

內容簡介 諾貝爾文學獎得主、當代美國最重要的黑人作家Toni Morrison，其著作曾獲得多項榮譽，包括全國書評家協會獎和普立茲文學獎，並於1993年獲得諾貝爾文學獎，本書即是獲得諾貝爾文學講之後的第一部小說。故事以一個集體暴力的驚悚場景起始，描述奧克拉荷馬州小鎮上發生的道德謀殺事件，一群女子為了逃離使她們痛苦、恐懼與殘暴之事，選擇集體出走、自我放逐，無懼無悔地走向自己的人生。這是一個關於種族、信仰與性別的故事，Toni另一部令人印象深刻、動人心弦，以及驚人的想像力作！“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

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